I Love Maps - I always have, they dont have to be
maps necessarily, I enjoy blueprints too.
Tolkiens story hit a chord with me. I have a decent collection of his work, including special
editions of LOTR, his biography, etc. This book
will, no doubt, be added to the collection as well.
My love of maps extended nicely into RPG's, I've been gaming for (at least) 15+ years now, and if I am the running a campaign - the players know that there are detailed maps behind most everything, even if they are never privy to any originals (unless of course they have intimate knowledge
of a locale or region) until after they information can be useful (ie, end of the campaign).
I tend to take all sorts of variables into account
in creating maps too - especially natural. For instance, when creating a World map (or known world, as the case usually is in FRPG's), plate techtonics (sp?) is always my first step.
There is one difference between Europe and America that comes to mind regarding maps, the speed in which roads and towns were formed. Because of this I think, although a very _general_ statement, Americans have a less accurate mental picture of their surrounding countryside, much less the terrain they will encounter on foot from thier hometown to the next.
Geez, I got so excited about the topic i just started rambling.
I've done several web sites for government agencys - all pretty much scripted, and the code that i use (95% of which is literally mine) is all GPL. (I'd place a link to it here if it were ready to go public).
Anyway - there was a little hesitation from them with the license, but once i explained the difference between a copyright on the 'content', vs a copyright on 'the code that speaks the content', they warmed up to it.
This argument probably wont solve your problem, but it will perhaps help.
-voudras
I have a couple, but thats only because you have more than 1 problem, you have 3.
How to update older documents (media, etc) so that they meet the required standards
How to ensure that the documents you create now meet the required standards
How to ensure that you will be able to maintain those standards in the future - as those standards change, you will need to conform to them - and you dont want to come across problem 1 and 2, 5 years from now!
suddenly, the first two problems are the easy ones. But, of course, i have a solution, or solutions rather - that encompass not only issues 1 and 2, but 3 as well.
I would outline these solutions further RIGHT HERE, but i dont want to do all that explaining if my email never gets read, or you dont wish to
hear it.
so write me if you want to hear more, and i will gladly explain.
I read your article from 98', and its a good piece - but i must say that i cant stand when people say 'skin head' meaning 'nazi'. this meshed definition has created this wierd 'bald == nazi' stereotype, and from what i gather - this is getting more and more dominant.
people, i urge you to use 'nazi' instead of skin head - i have been thought of as a nazi because of my appearence (bald), people assuming this upsets me a great deal.
yes, i realize that there are whole books dedicated to the stereotypes of races != caucasian, but i dont think i've even seen anyone point out that WHITE BALD MALES IN THIER EARLY 20s THAT WEAR BLACK DOES NOT MEAN NAZI
for napster to consider banning/blocking 'nazi' (and any similar) material. there are several reasons this is a bad idea, let me hit on a couple.
1) as soon an 'athoritive' figure attempts to supress something, those found under its control almost immidiatly see new worth to the subject matter. Did yor parents tell you your couldnt drink beer/smoke cigarettes? how many of you did so anyway? and how much of that desire was driven by the fact that "you're not supposed to". Those of you who can see what im saying here - but agree with what napster might do, need to take that example one step farther considering how shitty cigarettes taste - but how you "did it anyway - cause it was cool". If we make contraband of such material - then suddenly we have people distributing it, and getting into it initially, simply because of its 'im not supposed to do this' appeal.
2) I believe that suppression of material/subject matter tends to push that topic into an area of the 'taboo subject', this is far from what we need about these sort of topics - we need to be able to address them at any time, we need to be able to see these opinions - so that they can be discredited. whispered rumors linger, and tend to be 'belived' because of their secritive nature.
3) following the same line that jamie mentioned, whats next? filtering chumbawamba?
the above is just a couple reasons why companies who provide services like what napster does - need to be blind to the content, and treat it all equally - regardless. this is all art, art is expression, expression is derived from opinion - we all have a right to our opinion - regardless of how others preceive it (which is why jamies stab about hate bands having no talent is a totally mute point). The right for any individual to express their opinion is in itself, its own safeguard - because what you state as your opinion can be combated by the opinions of others. and onlookers may find themselves persuaded (to ether side) based on what they gain from the opinionated arguments of the disagreeing parties. finding themselves siding with the party that comes closest to mirroring thier ideals. This can be bad or good for the individual - certain some incredibly ignorant people can be pursuasive, and certainly ignorant people can be pursuaded - but we simply have no right to decide what peoples opinions are!
this reminds me of a conversation i had with a friend of mine - who, i'll mention, it quite intellegent. we were sitting in a living room and on top of the coffee table (on some magazine or what have you) there was a photo, a photo i am intimatly familiar with - a US marine in vietnam, putting a pistol to the head of a bound man in the street, and taking his life at that moment in time. As we were sitting there, my friend, half attempting to be funny, and at the same time being quite serious, stated something to the effect of "Man, this guy gets killed and the photographer wins the poltzer prize just for being there, isint that fucked up?", i considered his statement and retorted, "Mabye you should ask the victim - but i'll tell you that i think he would have been quite pleased, because someone has captured his prediciment, showing other exactly what happened, giving him a cry of death that will last hundreds of years. i dont think we could fathom the number of people who suffered a similar fate - yet had no chance to scream so loudly."
i mentioned the above becuase i could see some jackass deciding that this photo is unsuitable for children, it most certainly is not, in fact - i think it is incredibly important that we are faced (as humans) with our less desirable side as often as possible (not excessivly, but).
there seems to be a general feeling amongst people, that violence on tv is bad for children, because it desensitizes them, making them 'immune' to violence, or giving them the impression that violence is 'ok'. And certainly there are topics/subjects/images that should be viewed with adults present, or perhaps not until they are older (i wasnt allowed to watch r rated movies until i was 16, and this was controled by my *parents*). i bring this up because i feel that the opposite is true - that sheltering people from reality will prevent them from being able to handle it when they come in contact with it. this seems to be true with alchohol, sex, violence,.. and i think it is true for hate.
Yeah - ya got that right. I lived there for some time. Hell, we could always get a bunch of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/18/004720 2&mode=nested those too, just incase we end up taking mohawk down =).
Only thing i dont like about that one - is the ftp cops know me a lil *too* well.
oh ya, location mentioned for obvious reasons.
I already got a female too - not sure if she could tolerate more than one geek within 100 feet more than a couple days at a time. but im betting it would still be cheeper than rent - even with the T3.
I've considered the same thing, but a lil different. What i think would actually work is something like this.
several professional geeks get together and purchase a *large* location.. the sort that might have an *east wing* ya know? in theory you could rent out your section (as a group), sell your section (once you buy your own) - use your section as office space (for that home business). Y0 - this would definatly drop the cost of that T1 we'd all be arguing of whos using more of the bandwidth.
hmm, we'd have ta call it a geekosystem.
Funny how someone can point at napster and its users and say greed - but not the record labels. Man thats odd - isin't it? I'm wondering what Steven King is thinking about all this (after his own first attempt at net sales (literally)). Hmm, wasn't that last ruling with mp3.com giving the record labels 130 some-odd million, but they aint givin any musicians dick - right? greed - hmmm.
And all this aside - arent record/cd sales up?
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I bought all the metallica 'tapes' that i like back in the day - in fact, i still have most of them.. and occationally listen to them. Any MP3's that show up on my hard drive would be from that era - and as far as im concerned - i paid my dues! (and i dont think they've put out anything good since BEFORE 'Justice for All' anyway.) special thanks to anyone who ripped the mp3, and saved me the time of rippin if from tape (although it looks like i am gonna have to rip my Fugazi CD's You know - i looked at that paylars.com site - WOW, did anyone catch a gander at the logo? is that supposed to be an anarchy symbol? (right next to the dollar sign?) HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH wtf! reminds me of a shirt i saw on some kid a while back - big honkin anarchy sigh - with a copyright/trademark (whatever the hell it was) symbol right next to it! gimme a break! Don't even get me started on Metallica - whats next - payaxel.com?
you will not be tricked - ok, what did you contribute, how many jerry springer shows did you appear on? you didnt earn it - it was HANDED to you. Can someone tell me why i even bothered to assist this fool in his notions? It's like stapling jello to a tree. -V
The boat left and you weren't on it, you missed the fscking boat, and so did the author of that article!
It doesn't matter who started it, or where it started, or whos got the damn patent, the point is that it's a valuable tool. A tool that can help the great minds of the *world* communicate on a level in which there has been NO EQUAL! Furthermore - these great minds would form a system of education that can and WILL reach every person on the planet. Realize the POTENTIAL. How many Ben Franklins have never had a fucking chance!? How many Newtons never learned to write!? This is our chance to find every Einstein, Twain, Confusious, Wolfgang, and Plato - and nurture them with great thought.
You - who have been handed everything, has no concept of sharing. Whats worse is you don't seem to see how this selfishness hurts you. It is that mentality that has drown the potential of humanity in a sickly pool of ignorance and selfishness to this very day.
I believe it was Orson Well's radio story about martians invading the planet. This threw a good portion of the population into panic. This was much before my time. But I've always thought it was a 'once only' hack - being that this would now be impossible.
As ya can tell im a terrible speller.. actually it comes to me advantage in a small way when it comes to passwords. %95 of the time i misspell words the same way. a misspelled password evades dictionary checks. on top of that i tend to use the same character replacements (! instead of i, 0 instead of o, etc etc). so i usually end up pickin a word that reminds me of the login and bang - i remember the password (%95 if the time heheh)
Slashdot Mirror
I ain't smoke no crack in two hours.
I Love Maps - I always have, they dont have to be
maps necessarily, I enjoy blueprints too.
Tolkiens story hit a chord with me. I have a decent collection of his work, including special
editions of LOTR, his biography, etc. This book
will, no doubt, be added to the collection as well.
My love of maps extended nicely into RPG's, I've been gaming for (at least) 15+ years now, and if I am the running a campaign - the players know that there are detailed maps behind most everything, even if they are never privy to any originals (unless of course they have intimate knowledge
of a locale or region) until after they information can be useful (ie, end of the campaign).
I tend to take all sorts of variables into account
in creating maps too - especially natural. For instance, when creating a World map (or known world, as the case usually is in FRPG's), plate techtonics (sp?) is always my first step.
There is one difference between Europe and America that comes to mind regarding maps, the speed in which roads and towns were formed. Because of this I think, although a very _general_ statement, Americans have a less accurate mental picture of their surrounding countryside, much less the terrain they will encounter on foot from thier hometown to the next.
Geez, I got so excited about the topic i just started rambling.
apparently you need javashi^H^Hcript enabled in order to view this. hmm, isint that a Bad Idea(TM)?
I've done several web sites for government agencys - all pretty much scripted, and the code that i use (95% of which is literally mine) is all GPL. (I'd place a link to it here if it were ready to go public).
Anyway - there was a little hesitation from them with the license, but once i explained the difference between a copyright on the 'content', vs a copyright on 'the code that speaks the content', they warmed up to it.
This argument probably wont solve your problem, but it will perhaps help.
-voudras
I have a couple, but thats only because you have more than 1 problem, you have 3.
suddenly, the first two problems are the easy ones. But, of course, i have a solution, or solutions rather - that encompass not only issues 1 and 2, but 3 as well.
I would outline these solutions further RIGHT HERE, but i dont want to do all that explaining if my email never gets read, or you dont wish to hear it.
so write me if you want to hear more, and i will gladly explain.
-voudrasI read your article from 98', and its a good piece - but i must say that i cant stand when people say 'skin head' meaning 'nazi'. this meshed definition has created this wierd 'bald == nazi' stereotype, and from what i gather - this is getting more and more dominant.
people, i urge you to use 'nazi' instead of skin head - i have been thought of as a nazi because of my appearence (bald), people assuming this upsets me a great deal.
yes, i realize that there are whole books dedicated to the stereotypes of races != caucasian, but i dont think i've even seen anyone point out that WHITE BALD MALES IN THIER EARLY 20s THAT WEAR BLACK DOES NOT MEAN NAZI
for napster to consider banning/blocking 'nazi' (and any similar) material. there are several reasons this is a bad idea, let me hit on a couple.
1) as soon an 'athoritive' figure attempts to supress something, those found under its control almost immidiatly see new worth to the subject matter. Did yor parents tell you your couldnt drink beer/smoke cigarettes? how many of you did so anyway? and how much of that desire was driven by the fact that "you're not supposed to". Those of you who can see what im saying here - but agree with what napster might do, need to take that example one step farther considering how shitty cigarettes taste - but how you "did it anyway - cause it was cool". If we make contraband of such material - then suddenly we have people distributing it, and getting into it initially, simply because of its 'im not supposed to do this' appeal.
2) I believe that suppression of material/subject matter tends to push that topic into an area of the 'taboo subject', this is far from what we need about these sort of topics - we need to be able to address them at any time, we need to be able to see these opinions - so that they can be discredited. whispered rumors linger, and tend to be 'belived' because of their secritive nature.
3) following the same line that jamie mentioned, whats next? filtering chumbawamba?
the above is just a couple reasons why companies who provide services like what napster does - need to be blind to the content, and treat it all equally - regardless. this is all art, art is expression, expression is derived from opinion - we all have a right to our opinion - regardless of how others preceive it (which is why jamies stab about hate bands having no talent is a totally mute point). The right for any individual to express their opinion is in itself, its own safeguard - because what you state as your opinion can be combated by the opinions of others. and onlookers may find themselves persuaded (to ether side) based on what they gain from the opinionated arguments of the disagreeing parties. finding themselves siding with the party that comes closest to mirroring thier ideals. This can be bad or good for the individual - certain some incredibly ignorant people can be pursuasive, and certainly ignorant people can be pursuaded - but we simply have no right to decide what peoples opinions are!
this reminds me of a conversation i had with a friend of mine - who, i'll mention, it quite intellegent. we were sitting in a living room and on top of the coffee table (on some magazine or what have you) there was a photo, a photo i am intimatly familiar with - a US marine in vietnam, putting a pistol to the head of a bound man in the street, and taking his life at that moment in time. As we were sitting there, my friend, half attempting to be funny, and at the same time being quite serious, stated something to the effect of "Man, this guy gets killed and the photographer wins the poltzer prize just for being there, isint that fucked up?", i considered his statement and retorted, "Mabye you should ask the victim - but i'll tell you that i think he would have been quite pleased, because someone has captured his prediciment, showing other exactly what happened, giving him a cry of death that will last hundreds of years. i dont think we could fathom the number of people who suffered a similar fate - yet had no chance to scream so loudly."
i mentioned the above becuase i could see some jackass deciding that this photo is unsuitable for children, it most certainly is not, in fact - i think it is incredibly important that we are faced (as humans) with our less desirable side as often as possible (not excessivly, but).
there seems to be a general feeling amongst people, that violence on tv is bad for children, because it desensitizes them, making them 'immune' to violence, or giving them the impression that violence is 'ok'. And certainly there are topics/subjects/images that should be viewed with adults present, or perhaps not until they are older (i wasnt allowed to watch r rated movies until i was 16, and this was controled by my *parents*). i bring this up because i feel that the opposite is true - that sheltering people from reality will prevent them from being able to handle it when they come in contact with it. this seems to be true with alchohol, sex, violence,.. and i think it is true for hate.
-voudras
Yeah - ya got that right. I lived there for some time. Hell, we could always get a bunch of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/18/004720 2&mode=nested those too, just incase we end up taking mohawk down =).
Only thing i dont like about that one - is the ftp cops know me a lil *too* well.
your thinking too small. I'm thinking more like a relaxed condo. and hey - if you make too much noise upstairs, i'll wreck *your* lan party =o)
oh ya, location mentioned for obvious reasons. I already got a female too - not sure if she could tolerate more than one geek within 100 feet more than a couple days at a time. but im betting it would still be cheeper than rent - even with the T3.
I've considered the same thing, but a lil different. What i think would actually work is something like this. several professional geeks get together and purchase a *large* location.. the sort that might have an *east wing* ya know? in theory you could rent out your section (as a group), sell your section (once you buy your own) - use your section as office space (for that home business). Y0 - this would definatly drop the cost of that T1 we'd all be arguing of whos using more of the bandwidth. hmm, we'd have ta call it a geekosystem.
Funny how someone can point at napster and its users and say greed - but not the record labels. Man thats odd - isin't it? I'm wondering what Steven King is thinking about all this (after his own first attempt at net sales (literally)). Hmm, wasn't that last ruling with mp3.com giving the record labels 130 some-odd million, but they aint givin any musicians dick - right? greed - hmmm. And all this aside - arent record/cd sales up?
I _hate_ people like this. go back to cnn.com or something, troll.
project wont make it,.. but one will
thats a redundant statement
I bought all the metallica 'tapes' that i like back in the day - in fact, i still have most of them.. and occationally listen to them. Any MP3's that show up on my hard drive would be from that era - and as far as im concerned - i paid my dues! (and i dont think they've put out anything good since BEFORE 'Justice for All' anyway.)
special thanks to anyone who ripped the mp3, and saved me the time of rippin if from tape (although it looks like i am gonna have to rip my Fugazi CD's You know - i looked at that paylars.com site - WOW, did anyone catch a gander at the logo? is that supposed to be an anarchy symbol? (right next to the dollar sign?) HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH wtf! reminds me of a shirt i saw on some kid a while back - big honkin anarchy sigh - with a copyright/trademark (whatever the hell it was) symbol right next to it! gimme a break!
Don't even get me started on Metallica - whats next - payaxel.com?
I'm from Upstate NY - and have lived in america my whole life. you seem to have missed the boat too.
you will not be tricked - ok, what did you contribute, how many jerry springer shows did you appear on? you didnt earn it - it was HANDED to you. Can someone tell me why i even bothered to assist this fool in his notions? It's like stapling jello to a tree. -V
The boat left and you weren't on it, you missed the fscking boat, and so did the author of that article!
It doesn't matter who started it, or where it started, or whos got the damn patent, the point is that it's a valuable tool. A tool that can help the great minds of the *world* communicate on a level in which there has been NO EQUAL! Furthermore - these great minds would form a system of education that can and WILL reach every person on the planet. Realize the POTENTIAL. How many Ben Franklins have never had a fucking chance!? How many Newtons never learned to write!? This is our chance to find every Einstein, Twain, Confusious, Wolfgang, and Plato - and nurture them with great thought.
You - who have been handed everything, has no concept of sharing. Whats worse is you don't seem to see how this selfishness hurts you. It is that mentality that has drown the potential of humanity in a sickly pool of ignorance and selfishness to this very day.
damn you - Step aside and let us PASS!
(NOTE: When i say _OUR_ chance - I mean HUMANS)
-V
Seriously! by the time he's my age he'll be shreding!
Someone get him an F'in linux box! holy cow (heh).
I believe it was Orson Well's radio story about martians invading the planet. This threw a good portion of the population into panic. This was much before my time. But I've always thought it was a 'once only' hack - being that this would now be impossible.
As ya can tell im a terrible speller.. actually it comes to me advantage in a small way when it comes to passwords. %95 of the time i misspell words the same way. a misspelled password evades dictionary checks. on top of that i tend to use the same character replacements (! instead of i, 0 instead of o, etc etc). so i usually end up pickin a word that reminds me of the login and bang - i remember the password (%95 if the time heheh)